( 429-) 



40. Xenocerus henricus spec. nov. 



cJ ? . Allied to X. puncticollis (\894) Jord., lint the dorsal carina of the pro- 

 notnm laterally much more sintiate and the pattern of the elytra very different ; a 

 transverse postraedian band expanded between the fourth stripes, sharply truncate 

 laterally, produced into a short tooth behind on the suture and into a long pointed 

 sntural jirojection in front, this projection not extending farther froutad than the 

 basal third of the suture ; each elytrum with a vitta from base to near middle, 

 the vitta widened near its basal end, not curving towards scutellnm at the basal 

 margin of the elytrum. As in puncticollis, tbere is no lateral vitta ou the elytrum. 



Hab. Kalidnpa, Toekan Bessi la. (H. KUhn). 



A long series. 



41. Xenocerus aluensis atratus subsp. nov. 



(? ? . Black above, not clayish ; lines as in al. aluensis, but discal one of 

 elytrum interrupted, the broader and shorter adhumeral portion being separate 

 from the discal portion. 



//ab. Florida I., Solomon Is., January I'.Hil (Messrs. Meek & Eichhorn). 



Two <?cJ, one ?. 



42. Xenocerus aluensis rubianus subsp. nov. 



?. Colour of upperside olivaceous clay as in al. aluensis ; sutural vitta much 

 broader than in the Alu form, especially behiud, more extended backwards, not so 

 deeply divided ; transverse band short ; basal discal line connected in its middle 

 by a bar with the sutural vitta, as in X. conjunctus (1895) Jord. ; sublateral line 

 absent. 



Hab. Kulambangra, Rnbiana, Solomon Is., March 1-901 (Messrs. Meek & 

 Eichhorn). 



One ?. 



43. Xenocerus speracerus sudestensis subsp. nov. 



$. Differs from the Woodlark form in the following jioints : sutural vitta 

 much broader, extending beyond the first strijje of punctures, incised 3 mm. from 

 scutellnm, suture slightly edged with grey between vitta and ape.x, no lateral line 

 on eighth row of jinnctures, no transverse apical line, but a limbal mark before 

 middle ; a broad, irregular ring encircling humeral angle and joined to the basi- 

 discal line, which itself is connected with the sutural vitta in the type-specimen. 



llab. Sudest 1., Louisiade Archipelago, April IsUS (A. S. Meek). 



Two SS. 



44. Xenocerus birmanicus spec. nov. 



? . fjlose to A', sapei-doides from Java, the two being perhaps subspecies of 

 one sjiecies. Markings of upjierside more yellow. Antennal segments 1 to quite 

 black. Discal basal vitta of elytra not connected with sutural one at basal margin, 

 posteriorly not obli(pieIy iirolonged to the lateral margin and nut connected with 

 the transverse band, a short isolated line (or a truce of a line) before middle on 

 stripe 9 ; sutural vitta not reaching ajiex. Tijis of tibiae, of first and fourth tarsal 

 segments, and nearly the whole second segments black. 



Hab. Burma. 



Three ? ? . 



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